ity of Neufchatel was
thrown open to women, while the university of Zurich has long had a
large number of female students. Professor Pflueger, of the
university of Bern, writing to me in April, 1883, said:

From February 2, 1876, to the present time, thirty-five women
have taken degrees at our medical school. The lectures are
attended each semester on an average by from twenty-five to
thirty women, while from three to six follow the lectures on
philosophy and letters. The presence of women at our university
has occasioned no serious inconvenience and many colleagues favor
it.

The rector of the university of Geneva wrote, February, 1883:

Up to the present time the attendance of women at our university
has occasioned us no inconvenience except in some lectures of the
medical school, where the subjects are not always of a nature to
admit of their treatment before mixed classes.

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We shall now glance at the situation of woman in the three
Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Sweden stands
first, just as Germany does among the Teutonic nations, and France
among the Latin nations; in fact we may perhaps go farther and say
that of all Continental States, Sweden leads in many respects at
least, in the revolution in favor of women.

The State, the royal family, private individuals, and, above all,
women themselves have all striven to outstrip each other in the
emancipation of Swedish women. Normal schools, high schools,
primary schools, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts, both at Stockholm, dairy schools and a host of other
educational institutions, both private and public, are thrown wide
open to women. The State has founded scholarships for women at
Upsala University and at the medical school of the university of
Lund. Numerous benevolent, charitable and industrial societies
have been established and in many instances are managed by women.
But the best idea may be gained of the liberal spirit which
prevails in Sweden by showing what the State has done for the
emancipation of women. For instance, in 1845, equality of
inheritance for son and daughter was established, and the wife was
given equal rights with the husband as regards the common property;
in 1846, woman was permitted to practice industrial professions and
to carry on business in her own name; in 1861, the professions of